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Armatron

Armatron was the last toy I ever got for Christmas and man, was I excited. I spent months thinking about how cool it would be to own a robot arm. I remember getting it and it did everything it said but I guess I had built it up so much in my mind it could […]

Smile!

It’s ironic that all of this would soon be replaced by the frowning face of Garfield… Like our Facebook Page Check out our Instagram Get the expanded digital edition of Rack Toys here.

Mom’s strike back

I’d like to go back in time and change my mum’s subscription from “Canadian Living” to “Woman’s Day”, it seems like the “Cool mom” magazine. Like our Facebook Page Check out our Instagram Get the expanded digital edition of Rack Toys here.

1981 Lone Ranger Catalog by Gabriel Toys

http://plaidstallions.com/gabriel/81.html The Lone Ranger was riding high in 1981 thanks to a popular Saturday morning Cartoon series (by my favourite company Filmation) and the promise of a big budget film (that didn’t work out so good). So, Gabriel Toys blasted the toy shelves with two distinct toy lines, a relaunch of their popular 1970s 9″ […]

Space:1999 The Alien

There is something so charming about a company shoving an old toy into a new license’s box and hoping nobody would notice. Like our Facebook Page Check out our Instagram Get the expanded digital edition of Rack Toys here.